PSA to clear your roof if you need bonus exercise post-shred these coming weeks. Based on my rooftop snowpit density and depth measurements (pre-weekend event), I estimated I cleared over 100,000 lbs...

Couple photos should confirm all you need to know conditions-wise.

Something about a nice telemark turn amongst volcanic landscapes...
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I know, my poles are silly...
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What data and time period for average are you using? April sure provided (in many places)!

From my understanding and use of CalTopo products for both ski and geomorphology applications, the slope shading is based on an underlying digital elevation model (DEM) and not USGS quad-based...

let's turn this stock market BS back into the STOKE MARKET.

wind event was whatever, snow actually got better at middle upper-low elevs?! always a learning experience. precip, wind, radiation,...

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An offering from last month. Rare to have such wonderful multifaceted exposure on the drop in!

10 years ago if you showed me this I would said, "wow, looks thin for early July!"

Nice work on the bike-n-ski. And good work everyone else making high-proof limonchello out of (yet another)...

One stop shopping for observations. Lots you can adjust in the menus, if you don't see a station you like keep zooming in, also has 3 and 7 day historic data once you find a station of interest....

Great shots, folks! Best time of year bar none. Here's a minor contribution

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Red rocket! Don't slip. Crazy what the wind did, last week this was sluffy and glorious perfection. Much more...

+++vibes to the Utah crew, those involved and their friends and fam. damn.

amidst the incredibly sad outcome, some amazing heroics by the survivors. the photos, topographic info, and pit...

run tres, tres bien
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Not that anyone cares, but a fun science note re: "Greenhoused pow". This term is a misnomer for the exact same reason that the "greenhouse effect" of global warming is...

Great write-up on the Dodge Ridge wind event. Wild. It's awesome to have these events documented. Were many of the downed trees otherwise healthy or mostly beetle+drought kill?

One suggestion as...

Nice press in latest issue (Winter 2021) of Tahoe Quarterly: Snow Science by Citizens

[$PAM]: Get Mountain Hub (app) and contribute snow depth measurements to Community Snow Obs! It doesn't have...

Sounds par for the course, yes, omg w. t. f...Mt Dana, and especially if you include her lovely plateau, might have seen more total insane advice given (and taken) than anywhere else in the range...

Better late than never, our colleague Maxi Viale has released some new forecast products:
Río Atmosphérico forecast tools for South America!
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Storm Hood, thanks for the OR encyclopedia link, that is very helpful. And good call on the Trout Creek mountains, you were right! I had looked into the Wiki link, but figured rather than guess on...

Thanks, will do! Having some names to look into is helpful.



Good point, will revise accordingly.

How so? Feel free to mark up my errors in MS paint ;)


See Figure 1, but open to interpretations. I would have just written Cascades if left to my own devices, but then came across this subset of...

Help me with Oregon mountain geography!

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What ranges did I miss (some noted with ? marks) or F-up the name of? Glaciated regions don't have snow water equivalent values, in case you're...

Nice letter! Thanks for writing this and getting it out there in print.

Question that probably will be raised by some, which I imagine is also a hot topic within AAA and other education circles...

By AirNow do you mean https://fire.airnow.gov/? That one is $$ and includes a basic smoke transport plume overlay as well as purple air sensors.

Both are good, if you use Purple Air make sure to...

Hot off the press in the American Geophysical Union's Earth and Space Sciences journal:

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2020EA001129

I think the important avalanche...

Here's the official COOP data for May total precip at the SLC INTL AP, 2011 was big!:





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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRHVMi3LxZE

I think the idea of the mapping effort was to show that a 'modern' rail line could work. Bring back the V&T!

The original rail had some good ski...

I learned about this in the mid-2000s, it sounded like the study was done in the 1980s/90s? Might have been a few decades earlier in response to the Olympics coming as well? Been meaning to look into...

I don't know where the documents are today, but a UCSB geology group some years back did the mapping to show that a rail line from Truckee to Tahoe City was feasible (geotechnically speaking at...

Of course! Managers and decision makers have a crazy tough job. Here's another paper, this one from Rebecca Morss, that you guys might like that opened my eyes to the many challenges that we often...

Haha, if we talk about snow, maybe PD won't nuke the thread!



Facts!

Here's a link to a few papers from the Carson-Truckee watersheds led by Kelley Sterle:
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The users, yes for sure and to the horrifying point that if it rains 0.05" in Anaheim the statewide/westwide (can't forget CO river water deliveries!) drought is over.

The majority of managers,...

Glory, indeed. Thank you for helping me win today's unofficial Zoom background contest!

The March event really brought us out of the dregs snowpack-wise, though the improvement in ski conditions exceeded the water resource improvements (in my biased view). I have some cool plots to...

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We had fun examining the V-Day Avalanche Gulch slide on Mt. Shasta last year as part of a bigger effort to explore how various observational networks and models in California can "paint the picture"...

And here's to hoping we still get to enjoy these kinds of conditions later!

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(not my photo)

Great suggestion. On that note, after some spring cleaning, I got two growlers to give away in NW Reno (one a classy Silver Peak). They need a good bleach soak, been chillin in the cupboard for some...

Throwback from the Great December of 2019. photo by DocBmo

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A+++++ storm! When you have to dump out your hood after each lap from the egregious face shots, you know its a good time!

Yesterday, lots of big (>2 mm) dendrites were falling. Some rimed flakes...

Gusting to 75 mph (!!!) at the Galena RAWS (northside of 431 just east of Caswell Ln; link below). Hit 91 mph (!!!!!) this morning across the Browns Creek bridge on 580/395. Incredible winds.
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Thanks y'all! We were certainly psyched to ski a beautiful face in good conditions (despite the first few windboard turns as shown). Nice pow from the first cliff band down. The bonus was re-using...

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Whee!

For Tahoe City (best long record in the region, spanning ~1910-2020), here's the worst 15 Februaries:

Rank, Precip, Year, Missing Days
1 T 1912-02-29 0
2 0.07 1988-02-29 0
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A few thoughts on the KW winds: These winds look much more 'legit' than the 207 mph gust recorded earlier this week because the other sensors are working. Previously, the wind speeds were roaring...

Some fun with observations, adobe, and no pole bc skiing. fantastic corn harvest yesterday above a gnarly inversion.

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*the wizard did not ride it out switch to the road but did attempt to.

Plenty of wheeeee still to be found on random forest features.

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Kweeziana will always will remind you that all skis are rock skis. Mountain skiing great, even at 4:07 pm.

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Vibes to all the families of the fallen, RIP. Incredible conditions this past week, but with a big asterisk.

These types of stability situations are a good reminder to think extra hard about...

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Check out the skier's exit track from the Avy a (presumably the initial slide). Uphill hand traverse, presumably looking...

Field Guide to Snow Crystals by E.R. LaChappelle
The Snowflake by K. Libbrecht

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Haha, we did on January 28, but it was just a quick window. And then it snowed...

I tried to make it into a little infographic last year to use in my LTCC course and forgot to post it here. Data...

Closed out 2019 with the sun dropping over a classy roadside attraction to cap off an amazing month and simply magnificent calendar year of snow sports. Minataur photography at work while the Wizard...